Note: If we reach capacity, we will set up overflow rooms but you can also watch online by following the webcasts. The link for two special events’ webcasts can be found by following the More Info links.

Also to note: The Scientific portion of the Symposium can be watched live, here http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/live. Unfortunately you only have the option of watching it live since the archived videos will not be immediately posted.

The Fields Medal is the highest prize in mathematics, established in 1932 by UofT Professor J.C. Fields. It is not a lifetime achievement award like the Nobel Prizes, but it was established to encourage mathematicians, under the age of 40, to continue paving the way for new mathematical ideas.

Ngô Bào Châu is one of the Fields Medalists awarded at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. The Inaugural Fields Medal Symposium will be hosted at the Fields Institute to celebrate and extend Ngô’s research.

Ngô won the medal for proving the Fundamental Lemma of the Langlands Program using brilliant geometric ideas. Ngô’s work is built on ideas of UofT Professor James Arthur’s mathematical work in the program. The overarching goal of the Langlands Program is to unite many different areas of mathematics.

The inaugural Fields Medal Symposium has been organized as a celebration of these mathematical ideas with the hope that the next generation of mathematicians will be motivated to explore these questions. We are hosting talks by the world’s leading experts in Number Theory, Representation Theory, Algebraic Geometry, and Mathematical Physics. This includes one of the recipients of the $3M Fundamental Physics Prize, Edward Witten of the Institute

for Advanced Study.

All talks are tailored for students and young scientists interested in surveying ideas of general mathematical interest.

The October 16 panel discussion featuring many prominent mathematicians will be hosted at the institute, specifically for high school and undergraduate students (but all are invited). The discussion will be preceded by two talks that give context to the topics of the panel. Another feature of this year’s symposium is a public ceremony featuring talks by Ngô and UofT Professor James Arthur. The symposium activities will also be webcasted online for viewers around the globe.

The Fields Medal Symposium is being inaugurated by Director of the Fields Institute and UofT Professor Edward Bierstone. The symposium has secured sponsorship from Great West Life as a Gold Level Sponsor and James Stewart as a Silver Level Sponsor. The institute will continue to host the symposium series on an annual basis.

Course on Forcing Alan Dow (UNC Charolette)
Tentatively Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Stewart Library
This will be a basic Forcing course directed towards graduate students and non-experts which will still reach a reasonable level of sophistication in designing forcing notions. An emphasis will be placed on examples and on the methodology of designing the forcings themselves rather than the formal and rigorous development of the logical underpinnings of forcing.

Course on Large Cardinals
Paul Larson (Miami University)
Tentatively Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Stewart Library
Large cardinal axioms, also known as the axioms of the higher infinite, posit cardinals that prescribe their own transcendence over smaller cardinals and provide a superstructure for the analysis of strong propositions in set theory. They form an essentially linear hierarchy reaching up to inconsistent extensions of motivating concepts. This course will focus on the most fundamental large cardinal notions, emphasizing their inter-relationship with combinatorics and with forcing techniques.

July 22, 2011 - DISCRETE MATHEMATICS at Carleton University
Organizers: David Thomson (Carleton), Michelle Kovesi (Carleton, and
Richard Cerezo (Fields)
August 19, 2011 - STUDENT PRESENTATIONS FROM FIELDS-MITACS SUMMER
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM at the Fields Institute
Organizers: University of Toronto Math Union, UTM Mathematics and
Computer Science Society
September 2011 - KNOT THEORY at the University of Waterloo
Organizer: University of Waterloo Pure Math Club
October 28-30, 2011 - RISK FORUM at the University of Toronto
Organizers: University of Toronto, University of Waterloo,
Ryerson University. More TBA
November 2011 - ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY at Queen's University
Organizer: Queen's University Math Student Council
December 10-12, 2011 - 2011 CMS WINTER MEETING at the Delta Chelsea
Hotel, Downtown Toronto
Organizers: FUN Executive Team, CMS Student Committee
January 2012 - SEMINARS IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS IN MONTREAL
Organizer: Seminars in Undergraduate Mathematics in Montreal Executive Team
For more information, visit blog.fields.utoronto.ca/fun
or email Richard Cerezo at rcerezo@fields.utoronto.ca

Dear All,
We are running a workshop on mathematics and oceanography at the
Fields Institute on June 13 - 16, 2011. The purpose is to bring
together mathematicians and ocean scientists to confer on the
present state of research and the current body of knowledge
on ocean dynamics, and in particular on tsunami predictions
and the dynamics of rogue waves. There is a sense of urgency
in the ocean sciences and the mathematics
communities over these questions, due to the very recent tsunami
disaster in Japan.
Our purpose is to inform the mathematics community about problems
of prediction and of description of extreme ocean waves, and
in particular the role that can be
played by mathematical tools and techniques. As well, our purpose
is to provide a venue from which collaborations are developed
between the two communities of mathematicians and ocean scientists.
You are all welcome to attend the workshop, which has no
registration fee. More information is available at the Fields
Institute website:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/seawaves/<http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/10-11/seawaves/>
Hoping to see you there,
Walter and Catherine

The Fields Undergraduate Network (FUN) organizes
monthly meetings to explore different areas of mathematical
research. The theme as well as the host university will vary from
month to month. All interested undergraduates and graduates
are welcome to attend. We especially encourage participation by
members of student math societies.
For more information, please visit our website, or contact
Richard Cerezo (rcerezo@fields.utoronto.ca).
RESEARCH IN NUMBER THEORY WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Koffler House (KP108)
569 Spadina Avenue, University of Toronto
ORGANIZERS Richard Cerezo and Sergio Da Silva (Toronto)
SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. Networking
10:30 a.m. Question period with Hugh Williams (Calgary)
11:00 a.m. Hugh Williams, University of Calgary
What Keeps Our Secrets Safe?
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Henry Kim, University of Toronto
The Role of L-functions in Number Theory
2:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Leo Goldmakher, University of Toronto
Ergodic Approaches to Number Theory
Register on-site or online.
Please visit: www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/outreach/10-11/undergradnet

Jeremy Quastel will be teaching a new graduate course
"Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation from particle systems"
Mondays 1-3 in Rm 210, Fields Institute. Starting Mar 7.
The course is a part of the activities related to Fields Institute
Thematic Program "Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems".